Patterns of Aggravated Assault in Public Housing
Mapping the Nexus of Offense, Place, Gender, and Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12436718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold R Holzman (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, corresponding author), Robert A Hyatt (RTI International), JOSEPH M DEMPSTER (University of Maryland) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 662-684 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Violence Against Women (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10778010122182659 |
| OpenAlex | W2131935379 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 16 |
Little empirical research has been conducted on violence against women in public housing settings. This two-city study looks at rates of aggravated assault against public housing residents, both on and off public housing property, in an effort to probe possible links between this setting and the risk of falling victim to personal violence. In both cities it was found that Black female residents of public housing were at much higher risk of aggravated assault compared with Black and White women living elsewhere in the same jurisdiction. However, the geographic pattern for aggravated assaults for Black female public housing residents differed markedly in the two cities studied. Using situational crime prevention as the point of departure, the authors ascribe the differences in victimization patterns to the different architectural design and geographic dispersion of the respective cities' public housing developments. One city's developments offer less privacy and accessibility, thus discouraging would-be assailants
Criminology · Environmental health · Geography · Injury prevention · Jurisdiction · Poison control · Political science · Public housing · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Psychology
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Public Housing and Domestic Violence
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The Impact of Supportive Housing on Neighborhood Crime Rates
The Association Between Violence Exposure and Aggression and Anxiety
Contingent Urban Geographies of Violent Crime
Public Housing Residents Making Their Courtyard Safe From Drugs
A resident-oriented approach to developing sustainable welfare housing community
Banishment
Evaluating Housing Revitalization Projects
Evaluating Housing Revitalization Projects
I Couldn’t go Anywhere”
Crime victimization, alcohol consumption, and drug use in Canadian public housing
Interpersonal violent crime in Ghana
Neighbourhood Crime and Scattered-site Public Housing
Girls in the ’Hood
Homicide In and Around Public Housing
Preponderant Relationships
Ethnicity/Minorities, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Violence Between Intimate Partners
Crime and Everyday Life
Intimate Partner Violence
In Search of Respect
Violence against and the Harassment of Women in Canadian Public Housing
Persistence, Intensity, and Areal Extent of Violence Against Women
Intimate violence in the lives of homeless and poor housed women
When Work Disappears
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,96 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |